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2 May from 12.30-17.00 and 3 May from 8.45-10.00



Rising Asia, Anxious Europe

The conference "Rising Asia, Anxious Europe" 2-3 May was recorded and is now available as a video podcast. Watch the grand opening with speeches by Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal, Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm, and keynote presentations by:

  • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck
  • Isabel Hilton
  • Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer
  • Prof. Wang Gungwu
  • Prof. Aihwa Ong (note: poor sound quality for the first 3-4 minutes)

Programme

2 May 2012

The Ceremonial Hall, University of Copenhagen, Frue Plads, Copenhagen
Registration from 11.30

Moderator: Marie H. Roesgaard, Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, and Chair of the ADI Steering Committee

12:30-12:50

Opening Speech by the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal

12:50-13:00

Speech by Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm

13:00-13:50  

Prof. Ulrich Beck, Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and London School of Economics
"World at Risk: are Asia and Europe chasing the same dream or nightmare?"

13:50-14:40

Isabel Hilton, London-based international journalist and broadcaster, Editor of chinadialogue.net
"Future green superpowers: Chinese competition or cooperation?"

14:40-15.10

Tea and Coffee 

15:10-16:00 

Prof. Peter van der Veer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen
"Coping with Diversity in Europe, India and China"

16:00-16:50 

Prof. Wang Gungwu, Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore
"The China Effect in Asia and Europe"

16:50-17:00

Concluding remarks

17:00-18:30 Reception

 



3 May 2012

Faculty of Humanities (Building 22, 24 and 27), Njalsgade 120-136, 2300 Copenhagen S

Panel sessions

8:00-8:45 Registration

8:45-10:00 - Session 1 - Auditorium 22.0.11
Keynote presentation by Professor Aihwa Ong, Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
"Science as the Heart of “World-Class” Cities in Asia"

10:00-10:30 Coffee and tea
Session 2
Room 27.0.09   Room 27.0.49 Room 27.1.49 Room 24.1.45
10:30-12:30

Panel 1A :

Business, markets and enterprise in Asia-Europe encounters

Panel 1B :

Orientalism, Asian values and perspectives

Panel 1C :

Changing Security Dynamics

Panel 1D :

Urban identity and everyday life

12:30-13:30 Lunch
Session 3
Room 27.0.09   Room 27.0.49 Room 27.1.49 Room 24.1.45
13:30-15:30

Panel 2A :

Global resource competition, international aid and global consequences

Panel 2B :

Anxieties and accounts

Panel 2C :

Trade and investment flows between Europe and Asia

Panel 2D :

Urban ecology, transformation and negotiations

15:30-16:00 Coffee and tea
Session 4
Room 27.0.09  Room 27.0.49 Room 24.1.45
16:00-18: 00

Panel 3A :

Resource competition and consequences for food security and rural livelihoods

Panel 3B :

Languages and forms of Asia-Europe Comparison

Panel 3D :

Xindu case and Discussion of Urban Imaginaries and Power


Detailed programme here